http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070424_967747.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_top+story
I, and I think that most other folks who lived through the dot-com bust and the telco crash have a hard time NOT laughing at articles like this. There's not enough students? You're damn right there's not enough students. When companies are going to bleed jobs the minute things take a downturn and when everything that resembles engineering is being sent overseas, you're damn right that students are looking at other careers. I hardly recommend Computer Science as a degree to anyone. I tell IT majors that the best jobs are project management of workers overseas.
Now India is turning out to be not quite the deal everyone expected. Managing remote teams that operate 10 hours ahead causes work slippage and there's QC problems so now companies are making noise about the lack of skilled labor. TIME TO PAY UP YOU CORPORATE CHEAPSCAPES!!!!!!!!
I'll take requests to go back to software development. Let's start with a pay increase and good benefits...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Recent happenings...
Well, the great idea that was supposed to be this blog has been difficult to tend to. Publication deadlines, teaching, and life and general have pulled me away from the original intentions of this blog. I'm still not sure exactly how I want to use this platform in the future. Frost & Sullivan wants us to blog more, which is fine and might be the approach I will take. Its just challenging because its not like I'm given any hours for blogging, its just suppose to happen. Like the vast majority of everything at this job, its just suppose to happen.
Also, the notion of using this blog for teaching purposes turned out to be more difficult than I had thought originally. The time it takes to upload and then trying to get your students to REMEMBER to check the blog, write a response and comment, just wasn't working. If I use that format in the future, I will work with WebCT or one of the systems in place at the school and then either crosspost, post the best responses or something.
In my class, we've been talking about careers and its caused me to do some reflection. I've had a lot of interested and difficult career experiences in my life and maybe I can pass along some of my wisdom (or lack of foresight) to someone else. Please enjoy Career Advice #1!
Having credit stolen on a major project that moves on to be a success is a frustrating experience that does take time to get over. You have to learn to let go.
Here's the short version:
I worked on a large project, was lied to about future employment and was never credited with my rather large significant contribution.
This thing has actually had quite a bit of success and has become a national program. And of course I'm no longer at the institution and you'll NEVER see my name on it.
Its really brought me down over the last two years. I sweated blood for that damn thing, burned myself out, let my classes slide, all for that cause and then to feel like I got nothing for it was definitely a slap in the face. So here I am, two years later, and you know I'm realizing more and more that nothing is going to change. There will never be an apology. The people who run the program are going to keep building the prestige and success of the program (because they get paid to). No one cares about what Rob did for that thing and that's just how it is.
And its one thing to talk about acceptance, forgiveness and all the Zen concepts in the world, but there comes a point where you have to just fight yourself out of the self pity and keep going. My career now doesn't involve working with my old employer. They have no effect on me whatsoever. I see my old employer through our local ISSA meetings and that's it.
I'm see a lot of working professionals who let this stuff ruin them for life. They get looked over for a promotion, credit is stolen, whatever, and they just don't let it go. It continues to affect their life, their disposition towards others, their whole life. Life's too short. And burning yourself out over wanting an apology or explanation doesn't help.
I have had several experiences in my life where I have made people mad at me without even knowing the cause. I have had people fuming and furious with me without ever knowing why. Was it justified? Occasionally. Sometimes I had done something that offended someone without even knowing it. Most of the time though, I didn't even know I had done anything wrong at all. Most people are like that.
So, what's the moral of this long ramble? Take the stabs, outright lies, and overlooks as gracefully as possible. That doesn't mean to become a doormat, but realize when the intent is malicious or simply ignorant and decide your course of action from there. It doesn't mean to torture yourself with a bad environment. It just means take what happen for what it was and move on from there.
Also, the notion of using this blog for teaching purposes turned out to be more difficult than I had thought originally. The time it takes to upload and then trying to get your students to REMEMBER to check the blog, write a response and comment, just wasn't working. If I use that format in the future, I will work with WebCT or one of the systems in place at the school and then either crosspost, post the best responses or something.
In my class, we've been talking about careers and its caused me to do some reflection. I've had a lot of interested and difficult career experiences in my life and maybe I can pass along some of my wisdom (or lack of foresight) to someone else. Please enjoy Career Advice #1!
Having credit stolen on a major project that moves on to be a success is a frustrating experience that does take time to get over. You have to learn to let go.
Here's the short version:
I worked on a large project, was lied to about future employment and was never credited with my rather large significant contribution.
This thing has actually had quite a bit of success and has become a national program. And of course I'm no longer at the institution and you'll NEVER see my name on it.
Its really brought me down over the last two years. I sweated blood for that damn thing, burned myself out, let my classes slide, all for that cause and then to feel like I got nothing for it was definitely a slap in the face. So here I am, two years later, and you know I'm realizing more and more that nothing is going to change. There will never be an apology. The people who run the program are going to keep building the prestige and success of the program (because they get paid to). No one cares about what Rob did for that thing and that's just how it is.
And its one thing to talk about acceptance, forgiveness and all the Zen concepts in the world, but there comes a point where you have to just fight yourself out of the self pity and keep going. My career now doesn't involve working with my old employer. They have no effect on me whatsoever. I see my old employer through our local ISSA meetings and that's it.
I'm see a lot of working professionals who let this stuff ruin them for life. They get looked over for a promotion, credit is stolen, whatever, and they just don't let it go. It continues to affect their life, their disposition towards others, their whole life. Life's too short. And burning yourself out over wanting an apology or explanation doesn't help.
I have had several experiences in my life where I have made people mad at me without even knowing the cause. I have had people fuming and furious with me without ever knowing why. Was it justified? Occasionally. Sometimes I had done something that offended someone without even knowing it. Most of the time though, I didn't even know I had done anything wrong at all. Most people are like that.
So, what's the moral of this long ramble? Take the stabs, outright lies, and overlooks as gracefully as possible. That doesn't mean to become a doormat, but realize when the intent is malicious or simply ignorant and decide your course of action from there. It doesn't mean to torture yourself with a bad environment. It just means take what happen for what it was and move on from there.
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